"It's premature," she said by telephone. "The board makes the final decision. I don't have the position. I look forward to the position, but I don't have it yet."

Danbury High School Principal
Catherine Richard
announced in the spring she would retire June 30 after 35 years in education.

Richard has been prinicpal for four years. Before that, she spent 12 years as an assistant principal at the high school and another 18 years as a special education teacher.

Rezendes has spent most of her career in Danbury.

She was a ninth-grade English teacher from 1974 to 1984 at what was then the Rogers Park Junior High School. She was an English teacher at the district's alternative high school from 1984 to 2003, and she taught English at Danbury High from 2003 through 2005.